Taiwan's Compal Electronics Inc. (仁寶), the world's second-largest contract maker of laptops, said Thursday that its notebook PC shipments will remain flat this year but will still outperform the overall market.

ASML confirmed that its customer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC, 台積電) has successfully exposed more than 1000 wafers on an NXE:3300B EUV system in a single day, an important step toward insertion of EUV lithography in volume production of semiconductors, according to the company.